To not want to have to cuddle a sanitary bin every time I use a public loo?

[Deucebumps]

Just that really.

Used the loos at Waterloo station, when it occurred to me that the thing I hate most about public toilets is that the bins in cubicles are so intrusive. I wouldn't say I have a particularly large arse but I find myself leaning sideways trying to avoid said arse making contact with the sanitary bin. Surely if they just made them shorter and deeper so it sat below the level of the toilet seat they could hold the same volume of waste?

So AIBU or does this annoy anyone else....

Picture of the offender this morning in case anyone has no idea what I'm on about!

I feel like a bit of a freak now My arse would go nowhere near that bin and I'm a 5 foot 4 size 14 and carry my weight on arse and thighs. I don't sit on the seat in a public loo ever so I'm above the level of the bin iyswim. Mind you I did manage to twig that I'd been facing the wrong way in French hole in the floor loos after 10 days there
Lack of elbow room/turning circle and hooks pisses me off though.

Just thought I'd share the controls of a cafe toilet I used in Japan.

It has a fanny wash button, fanny wash!!

". On it is a little disposable bag, about the size of a freezer bag. "

Wouldn't that be just to take a bag to use & dispose of elsewhere?

A fanny flush? How decadent!

Toilets are continuing to annoy me today. I'm the only person in the office 99% of the time, so the loo seat is pretty much always down. My staff occasionally pop in between jobs (delivery drivers) and use the office loo, which is fine. The problem comes when they leave the seat up and a lingering smell of piss in the air. Makes me slightly murderous every time.

It irritates me when the baby change facilities don't have a toilet for the adult, the normal toilets don't have a cubicle big enough for a pram and the disabled toilets are radar keys. How exactly am I supposed to go to the loo? With everything on show and the cubicle door held open with a pram? Or in the nappy bin?

I rarely come across a sanitary bin that isn't smeared in blood with a used towel wedged half in - who are these women who don't know/can't be arsed to dispose of their stuff properly?!

Moon cup guys, if we all used mooncups these bins of revulsion would disappear

I see your point about mooncups but don't they need to be rinsed out? I wouldn't want to do that in front of everyone else in the queue or use the basins that other people had rinsed theirs in!

We could have wee fanny washing fountains which could double as mooncup rinsers. Oh the dreams I have!

I either take a bottle of water in with me, or wipe it out with some loo roll. To be honest, I can't remember the last time I had to do my mooncup in a public loo... I normally only have to empty morning and evening. Occasionally lunchtime on the first day.

I always assumed it was old toilets designed before towels were disposable. But that doesn't make sense in most cases.

Thecwirstvthing about Waterloo toilets is the disabled loo / baby change loo is through a door they have to buzz you through and then up two steps. Great plan for wheelchairs, people with crutches etc and pushchairs!

I assumed given the obviously huge spend on the new level shops etc there would be a new arrangement, but none so far. Also often quite a queue.

A new shopping centre i was in recently had a wall mounted sanitary bin. I think it was electrically operated no- touch. I was very close to taking a photo...lol.

Something similar to this:

My school had a furnace for us to burn the sin away! Maybe bring back the furnaces

What!? You people SIT ON PUBLIC TOILET SEATS? Say it's not so ....

Yes, Sandy, and I have yet to catch a nasty bum hole disease through doing it.

Yes! No RTFT but I cannot agree more!

Yes, Sandy, I do. My bum is covered in this wonderful germproof material called 'skin'. Most are, in fact. Isn't yours?

The biggest challenge I had with public loos was when I was pregnant. There were some where I oculd not physically squeeze myself into the cubicle, whichever way I tried. Unlike my flab. bumps aren't squishy.

There's a shopping centre near us which has some "family" toilets, with loo and baby change. Great and saves clogging up the disabled loos with my incontinent, neurologically disabled child (who is getting far too curious about the red cords)! Only the sink is so high that even my not petite at all 10yo can barely reach the taps.

And we often do end up in the disabled loos with him, since I can't exactly leave him outside the ladies' while I empty my own bladder. There's the ones (in Debenhams - always) which would be OK if it wasn't for the bin that's no bigger than a sanitary bin, which we can barely force his pads into. Annoying since Debenhams tends to be the best option in a lot of towns.
There's the John Lewis ones which look a bit uncared for, but are otherwise well designed and well appointed with nappy disposal bins (with a lip on the lid, rather than a pedal, so even he can manage it without sticking half his arm in) but the hand towel up is barely reachable by him so how the hell can someone in a chair reach it?
There's the fact that in so many disabled loos, the toilet paper is such a long way back that I can barely reach it, so what chance does someone with much more restricted mobility have?
The star might have been the cubicles in the Baltic - all mod cons with every hoist and accessibility modification you can imagine - al crammed into a space the size of an understairs cupboard so there's no room to have the table out with one person standing next to it, never mind having a chair in there, too.

A milder bugbear is the more accessible cubicle often found in the ladies' loos, with an outward opening door and rails inside - I often use these as I have dodgy knees and sometimes struggle with getting up and down. Newer M&S sensibly do away with the fiddly flush mechanism in favour of a nice easy wide grip handle. The ones I use at a university have the same difficult to push flush mechanism as the rest of the cubicles - I need to use both thumbs to be able to flush it because they bend back more than the sodding button yields. If I had my stick with me I'd probably end up using that.

Anyone remember the sanitary towel incinerators of the 80s and earlier?

I was never aware of one actually working.

Never seen one, but I quite like to imagine the used sanitary product on a respectfully slow conveyor belt, being accompanied on its journey by appropriate music, until it slips through the curtains and meets its dignified end.

I remember the incinerators and also never saw one that actually worked. A tiny crematorium for tampons in every loo would be awesome.

I live in Canada and have to put up with the gaps around the doors. I absolutely hate them.

My old secondary school a had sanitary towel incinerator. Never seen it working though. I used to think maybe the caretaker set it alight after home time. It was like a little post box.

Yes this annoys me too thought it was because I've got a large arse. I also get hacked off with many disabled toilets not having a mirror. Obviously if you've got a disability you don't give a damn what you look like! And cubicles that have no hooks in to hang your bag on. I will not put my bag on a public toilet floor. I think the stupidest thing I have seen in a public toilet was the hand dryer being directly above the sink. So when you turned the taps on to wash your hands,you instantly got blasted with hot air too!

And another thing I have often noticed with public toilets - used pregnancy tests! Who are these women who have to do a pregnancy test in a public toilet?!

Don't get me wrong. I have no problem with anyone doing a pregnancy test in a public loo. It's just that they never seem to put them in the bin after. Or take them home with them. They are left lying on the floor,or even in the sink!